Natural World Quotes

What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.

I feel like one of God's chosen people, having had the opportunity to share, with many fine companions, these varied and lovely realms of our natural world.

I think every pet lover has an appreciation for nature - I've never met an animal lover who didn't have some kind of connection to the natural world.

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.

Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.

I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over the wonderful snow-covered Santa Fe hills, I'm grateful for every day that I live here.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

The ultimate design is little different from the natural world.

Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.

Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.

I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals ... and silliness.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.

There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person.

Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.

Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.

Remember, as each man and woman is a microcosm reflecting the larger natural world, so healing of the self is also a healing for the world. As above, so below.

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

No beast has ever overcome the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.

The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.

Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.

In the natural world, beautiful usually means deadly. Beautiful with a casual demeanor always means deadly.

All isn't well with the world.

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.

[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.

Humankind's greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world.

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.